“At home, my mother dabbed at her brow with a wet flannel she kept in the fridge for that purpose.”
Source: Maestro
“The electric hum of cicadas, which was a low drone near the road, become an overwhelming vibration in the neck-deep brush that had taken back what was once a long driveway and front yard. By the time I reached the structure, beads of sweat were rolling off my lips and the tip of my nose, and my skin was covered in the slick of Louisiana humidity.”
Source: Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana
“Astronomical observatories are at high altitude due to the radiation levels from Space being elevated because they are in a partial vacuum, the humidity is low and they are often above the clouds.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“The following weekend delivered that unhappy combination of cloud cover and oppressive humidity.”
Source: Man's Best Friend
“He knew the time for burning and plowing had ended the day before, but there still lingered in the warm March air something of the new season. The smell of freshly turned earth and the odor of pine and sedge-smoke hovered over the land even after burning and plowing was done. He breathed deeply of it, filling his body with the invigorating aroma.”
Source: Tobacco Road
“The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation.”
Source: Tenryu-ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden
“Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.”
Source: Tenryu-ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden
“Stop making excuses for your lack of action or results by focusing on what other people have done to you, how life is not fair, or how the world has wronged you.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.”
Source: Kyoto Machiya Restaurant Guide: Affordable Dining in Traditional Townhouse Spaces
“I celebrated my arrival in Kyoto with a dinner of grilled eel, a sublime delicacy in Japan. In the water the fish resembles a ferocious jagged-toothed snake. But when sizzled over hot charcoal it looks like a fillet of sole that has spent the winter in Palm Beach. The skin turns crisp and smoky and the fatty white flesh, basted with a sweet soy syrup, becomes deeply tanned and as succulent as foie gras.”
Source: Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto